Re: USB peripherals are plugged in across time: how are /dev/ttyUSBx assignations done?

2010-07-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 04 iul 10, 14:06:51, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Hi, > > Let's say that you progressively plug in USB peripherals in(to) USB > ports of one computer running Debian. How are the /dev/ttyUSB0, > /dev/ttyUSB1, etc., assignations achieved? Is /dev/ttyUSB0 the first > plugged device, or is it one in

Re: aptitude was: Re: After installation, my P2 is still unable to launch Debian

2010-07-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 04 iul 10, 11:03:47, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Wolodja Wentland wrote: > > > > You might want to use aptitude as it is the default package manager for > > lenny (and subsequent releases) for reasons like better dependency > > resolution, interactive dependency resolution, ... > > > You're r

Re: Debian support on newer 4K Advanced format drives (rather than 512 bytes)

2010-07-04 Thread Mark Allums
On 7/4/2010 10:30 AM, lee wrote: On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 02:31:15PM +1000, CaT wrote: I wont be buying more of these if I can avoid it. I'd rather a 4k drive that says it's a 4k drive and get on with life. Well, I wonder what the manufacturers thinking behind lieing about the sector size is.

Re: SATA disk detected as IDE? SOLVED

2010-07-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ron Johnson put forth on 7/4/2010 4:55 PM: > On 07/04/2010 04:43 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 15:01:35 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: >> >>> On 20100704_154414, Camale?n wrote: >> Review your "/usr/src/linux/drivers/ata/libata-core.c" and search for "ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ" string t

Re: google chrome mailto: in lxde

2010-07-04 Thread Scott Lair
On Du, 04 iul 10, 12:41:12, Scott Lair wrote: Using squeeze with the lxde desktop. I installed google chrome and when I click on a link with a mailto:, chrome opens up another browser window and waits. I noticed that under gnome it works fine - calls up evolution like it should. Is there

Re: Debian support on newer 4K Advanced format drives (rather than 512 bytes)

2010-07-04 Thread thib
lee wrote: Well, I wonder what the manufacturers thinking behind lieing about the sector size is. [...] XP, AFAIK. -t -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.

Re: CUPS: why can `Media Source' be `CD or DVD tray'?

2010-07-04 Thread Merciadri Luca
(Message was apparently not received.) Merciadri Luca wrote: > I was seeing this in System > Administration > Printing > [my_printer's > properties] > Printer Options > Media Source (using GNOME's GUI to CUPS' > web interface). > > Wolodja Wentland wrote: > >> On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 22:21 +020

Re: CUPS: why can `Media Source' be `CD or DVD tray'?

2010-07-04 Thread Merciadri Luca
(Message was apparently not received.) Merciadri Luca wrote: > I was seeing this in System > Administration > Printing > [my_printer's > properties] > Printer Options > Media Source (using GNOME's GUI to CUPS' > web interface). > > Wolodja Wentland wrote: > >> On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 22:21 +020

Re: Network crashes under heavy load

2010-07-04 Thread Jaime Di Cristina
On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 08:53:32PM +0100, Nathen wrote: > For some reason my server stops responding to network traffic (shares > go offline, no response to SSH or ping, etc) after heavy load - > transferring large amounts of data via Samba or running several iperf > benchmarks causes it, however t

Re: USB peripherals are plugged in across time: how are /dev/ttyUSBx assignations done?

2010-07-04 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 14:06:51 +0200 Merciadri Luca wrote: > Hi, > > Let's say that you progressively plug in USB peripherals in(to) USB > ports of one computer running Debian. How are the /dev/ttyUSB0, > /dev/ttyUSB1, etc., assignations achieved? Is /dev/ttyUSB0 the first > plugged device, or is

USB peripherals are plugged in across time: how are /dev/ttyUSBx assignations done?

2010-07-04 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, Let's say that you progressively plug in USB peripherals in(to) USB ports of one computer running Debian. How are the /dev/ttyUSB0, /dev/ttyUSB1, etc., assignations achieved? Is /dev/ttyUSB0 the first plugged device, or is it one in a specific port? Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.s

Re: Saving files of one folder in another partition, but without changing the path?

2010-07-04 Thread Merciadri Luca
Thanks. That's what I was thinking about. Axel Freyn wrote: > Hi, > On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 11:33:04PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> Put simply, I have a program which saves data in a subdirectory of >> /var/lib/. The problem is double: >> >> 1. I can't modify the path where data are saved;

Re: J-Pilot and Handspring Visor

2010-07-04 Thread Marc Shapiro
From: Florian Kulzer >On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 19:34:04 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: >> I have the Vendor and Product IDs from dmesg. > Then why did you not include this information in your mail? This is the output from dmesg: [637797.771076] usb 2-3.1: New USB device found, idVendor=082d, idP

Re: Connecting to the exterior network is impossible `directly'

2010-07-04 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 11:12:34 +0200 Merciadri Luca wrote: > Celejar wrote: ... > > >From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_portal#Implementation > > > > - > > > > Implementation > > > > There is more than one way to implement a captive portal. > > [edit] Redirection by HTTP > > > > If an

Re: Connecting to the exterior network is impossible `directly'

2010-07-04 Thread Merciadri Luca
Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 22:07:03 -0400 > Rob Owens wrote: > > ... > > >> I think the solution was to use opendns servers in /etc/resolv.conf. >> The reason it works is that, according to the article I read, many of >> these captive portal systems work by not giving you a dns server

Re: CUPS: why can `Media Source' be `CD or DVD tray'?

2010-07-04 Thread Merciadri Luca
Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 09:52 +0200, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > >> On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 22:21 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> >>> For a printer, why can `Media Source' be `CD or DVD tray'? If I >>> understand it well, `Media Source' specifies where the paper to p

Re: CUPS: why can `Media Source' be `CD or DVD tray'?

2010-07-04 Thread Merciadri Luca
I was seeing this in System > Administration > Printing > [my_printer's properties] > Printer Options > Media Source (using GNOME's GUI to CUPS' web interface). Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 22:21 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> For a printer, why can `Media Source' be `CD

Re: aptitude was: Re: After installation, my P2 is still unable to launch Debian

2010-07-04 Thread Merciadri Luca
You're right. I had taken the (bad) habit to use apt-get on other computers, and, once you have begun using apt-get, it's better not to use aptitude, isn't it? Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 22:54 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> why. I did an `apt-get install gnome' and res

boot raid1

2010-07-04 Thread Jozsi Avadkan
I have two disks. Debian Lenny/SRAID1 Do i have to make a separate /boot on each disk[how?], and then create SRAID1 on a remaining partition? or put the /boot on the RAID1? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listm

Re: Network crashes under heavy load

2010-07-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/04/2010 02:53 PM, Nathen wrote: For some reason my server stops responding to network traffic (shares go offline, no response to SSH or ping, etc) after heavy load - transferring large amounts of data via Samba or running several iperf How heavy is "heavy"? benchmarks causes it, however

Re: SATA disk detected as IDE? SOLVED

2010-07-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/04/2010 04:43 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 15:01:35 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20100704_154414, Camale?n wrote: Review your "/usr/src/linux/drivers/ata/libata-core.c" and search for "ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ" string to find a list of blacklisted devices in which kernel avoids e

Re: SATA disk detected as IDE? SOLVED

2010-07-04 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 15:01:35 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20100704_154414, Camale?n wrote: >> Review your "/usr/src/linux/drivers/ata/libata-core.c" and search for >> "ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ" string to find a list of blacklisted devices in >> which kernel avoids enabling NCQ for some reason (slow/

how to set port speed for a GPRS connection

2010-07-04 Thread Long Wind
I have a GPRS connection In Nokia suite in Windows, it claims the speed is about 460kbps In pppconfig how to set port speed? Thanks in advance! (Because the connection is slow, I may not be able to reply to your help.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: automatically removing commercials from recorded movies

2010-07-04 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 08:58:09PM +0200, lee wrote: > On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 01:03:43PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > > > > MythTV runs a program called "mythcommflag". Maybe you could look up > > the source or just get it to run standalone, without installing MythTV. > > As far as I understood, i

Re: Network crashes under heavy load

2010-07-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 04 iul 10, 20:53:32, Nathen wrote: > For some reason my server stops responding to network traffic (shares > go offline, no response to SSH or ping, etc) after heavy load - > transferring large amounts of data via Samba or running several iperf > benchmarks causes it, however the system stil

Re: SATA disk detected as IDE? SOLVED

2010-07-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 04 iul 10, 15:01:35, Paul E Condon wrote: > But now I'm looking at debian.org and having difficulty figuring out > what to do to get my /usr/src/linux directory created and > populated. Can someone recommend a howto for deb-src? The Linux kernel is special, because the source is packaged

Re: SATA disk detected as IDE? SOLVED

2010-07-04 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-07-04 23:20 +0200, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Paul E Condon put forth on 7/4/2010 4:01 PM: > >> On my computer /usr/src/linux/ directory does not exist. > > That's because you don't compile your own kernels (or at least on that PC). There is no reason to build kernels under /usr/src/linux.

Re: SATA disk detected as IDE? SOLVED

2010-07-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Paul E Condon put forth on 7/4/2010 4:01 PM: > On my computer /usr/src/linux/ directory does not exist. That's because you don't compile your own kernels (or at least on that PC). Google for "ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ" -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: SATA disk detected as IDE? SOLVED

2010-07-04 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100704_154414, Camale?n wrote: > On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 09:04:56 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > On 20100702_235713, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > >> >>> "ATA_NCQ_HORKAGE list"? The only hit that I get on this string in > >> >>> Google > > > > I was involved in this confusion at an earlier stage.

Re: suspend to disk unreliable?

2010-07-04 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 4 Jul 2010 18:02:47 +0200 lee wrote: > On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 04:00:57PM +, Camaleón wrote: ... > > If developers are not aware of your situation, they cannot correct the > > bugs > > Still filing bug reports doesn't seem to achieve anything these days. Overbroad generalization.

Network crashes under heavy load

2010-07-04 Thread Nathen
For some reason my server stops responding to network traffic (shares go offline, no response to SSH or ping, etc) after heavy load - transferring large amounts of data via Samba or running several iperf benchmarks causes it, however the system still responds to the power button so shuts down when

Re: google chrome mailto: in lxde

2010-07-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 04 iul 10, 12:41:12, Scott Lair wrote: > Using squeeze with the lxde desktop. I installed google chrome and > when I click on a link with a mailto:, chrome opens up another > browser window and waits. > > I noticed that under gnome it works fine - calls up evolution like > it should. > >

Re: automatically removing commercials from recorded movies

2010-07-04 Thread lee
On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 01:03:43PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > > MythTV runs a program called "mythcommflag". Maybe you could look up > the source or just get it to run standalone, without installing MythTV. As far as I understood, it works by creating some sort of index, giving something like fra

Re: suspend to disk unreliable?

2010-07-04 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 20:33:34 +0200, lee wrote: > On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 04:42:46PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> You cannot disconnect the main disk because hibernation saves the image >> of the running system there (unless you manually change the location). > > Sure I can disconnect the disks. But

Re: normalize audio volume

2010-07-04 Thread Matthew Moore
On Sunday July 4 2010 9:15:09 am Rob Owens wrote: > All of my music contains tags for vorbisgain/replaygain. MythTV's Myth > Music player, however, doesn't have provisions to use replaygain. Is there > a way I can pipe my audio output to another program which will raise/lower > the volume, effect

Re: suspend to disk unreliable?

2010-07-04 Thread Memnon Anon
Lisi writes: [...] > I do not know about Germany, but here the shop/firm would be likely to > say that installing Linux counts as misuse, or at any rate is not > covered, and would in all probability have no difficulty persuading > both Trading Standards Officers and the courts to agree with them.

Re: suspend to disk unreliable?

2010-07-04 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 19:44:18 +0200, lee wrote: > On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 05:06:02PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> No, I think you still ignore what is this all about. I'll try to make >> it short and easy: > > Your objections are completely irrelevant. Those are not "my" objections but how things w

Re: suspend to disk unreliable?

2010-07-04 Thread lee
On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 04:42:46PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 18:02:47 +0200, lee wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 04:00:57PM +, Camaleón wrote: > > >> Then you can setup a chrooted environment and make the tests in there. > >> Or you can try with a LiveCD to avoid data

Re: suspend to disk unreliable?

2010-07-04 Thread lee
On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 05:06:02PM +, Camaleón wrote: > No, I think you still ignore what is this all about. I'll try to make it > short and easy: Your objections are completely irrelevant. I was saying that suspend to disk is something that should work out of the box. The Debian installer is

Re: suspend to disk unreliable?

2010-07-04 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 18:14:07 +0200, lee wrote: > On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 08:42:02PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 11:40:32 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: >> >> > Excuse me but are you *really* saying that anyone "there" would buy a >> > car that only certain people can operate with

Re: automatically removing commercials from recorded movies

2010-07-04 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 05:42:02PM +0200, lee wrote: > On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 11:21:40AM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 04:34:43PM +0200, lee wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > what do you use to automatically remove commercials from movies > > > recorded with a TV card? I know myt

google chrome mailto: in lxde

2010-07-04 Thread Scott Lair
Using squeeze with the lxde desktop. I installed google chrome and when I click on a link with a mailto:, chrome opens up another browser window and waits. I noticed that under gnome it works fine - calls up evolution like it should. Is there a setting or something in lxde that would fix th

Re: suspend to disk unreliable?

2010-07-04 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 18:02:47 +0200, lee wrote: > On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 04:00:57PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> Then you can setup a chrooted environment and make the tests in there. >> Or you can try with a LiveCD to avoid data loss. Nowadays you have many >> choices to test hibernation in a safe

Re: suspend to disk unreliable?

2010-07-04 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 04 July 2010 17:14:07 lee wrote: > It's ppl using computers and running software on them; computers don't > run all by themselves, just like cars. Same is with refrigerators: You > don't get a certificate telling you exactly which goods you may put > into your fridge. But you expect your

Re: suspend to disk unreliable?

2010-07-04 Thread lee
On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 08:42:02PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 11:40:32 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 04:00:57PM +, Camale�n wrote: > >> On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 16:11:03 +0200, lee wrote: > > > > .snip. > > > >> > And who

Re: SATA disk detected as IDE? SOLVED

2010-07-04 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 04 July 2010 16:04:56 Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20100702_235713, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh put forth on 7/2/2010 9:24 PM: > > > On Fri, 02 Jul 2010, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > >>> software... What is NCQ? (in this context, of course) What is > > > > > > A way to

Re: suspend to disk unreliable?

2010-07-04 Thread lee
On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 04:00:57PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 16:11:03 +0200, lee wrote: > > Insofar such testing involves eventually losing data, doing such testing > > isn't really an option. > > Then you can setup a chrooted environment and make the tests in there. Or > you c

Re: SATA disk detected as IDE? SOLVED

2010-07-04 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 09:04:56 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20100702_235713, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> >>> "ATA_NCQ_HORKAGE list"? The only hit that I get on this string in >> >>> Google > > I was involved in this confusion at an earlier stage. I'm still > confused: What, exactly, do I type into

Re: automatically removing commercials from recorded movies

2010-07-04 Thread lee
On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 11:21:40AM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 04:34:43PM +0200, lee wrote: > > Hi, > > > > what do you use to automatically remove commercials from movies > > recorded with a TV card? I know mythtv can do it, but I don't like > > mythtv. > > > Personally, I'

Re: Debian support on newer 4K Advanced format drives (rather than 512 bytes)

2010-07-04 Thread lee
On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 02:31:15PM +1000, CaT wrote: > > I wont be buying more of these if I can avoid it. I'd rather a 4k drive > that says it's a 4k drive and get on with life. Well, I wonder what the manufacturers thinking behind lieing about the sector size is. It only leads to problems --- e

Re: automatically removing commercials from recorded movies

2010-07-04 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 04:34:43PM +0200, lee wrote: > Hi, > > what do you use to automatically remove commercials from movies > recorded with a TV card? I know mythtv can do it, but I don't like > mythtv. > Personally, I'd just use MythTV. But if you want to do it yourself, avidemux has a "next

normalize audio volume

2010-07-04 Thread Rob Owens
All of my music contains tags for vorbisgain/replaygain. MythTV's Myth Music player, however, doesn't have provisions to use replaygain. Is there a way I can pipe my audio output to another program which will raise/lower the volume, effectively adding replaygain to Myth Music? -Rob -- To UNSU

Re: [SOLVED] switching to console and zapping

2010-07-04 Thread lee
On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 11:34:52AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 09:39:53 -0400 (EDT), lee wrote: > > > > Well, I changed the keyboard setting in xorg.conf: > > > > Section "InputDevice" > > Identifier "Keyboard0" > > Driver "kbd" > > Option "X

Re: SATA disk detected as IDE? SOLVED

2010-07-04 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100702_235713, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh put forth on 7/2/2010 9:24 PM: > > On Fri, 02 Jul 2010, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >>> software... What is NCQ? (in this context, of course) What is > > > > A way to have various requests "in flight" and let the disk itself order

automatically removing commercials from recorded movies

2010-07-04 Thread lee
Hi, what do you use to automatically remove commercials from movies recorded with a TV card? I know mythtv can do it, but I don't like mythtv. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Debian support on newer 4K Advanced format drives (rather than 512 bytes)

2010-07-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/03/2010 03:09 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Ron Johnson put forth on 7/3/2010 2:36 PM: This is unrelated. FS block size != sector size. It is when you use a 4KB drive Not according to man on Stable: mkfs.xfs [ -b block_size ] ... [ -s sector_size ] [ -L label ] [ -N ] device -b blo

Re: Saving files of one folder in another partition, but without changing the path?

2010-07-04 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 23:33:04 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Hi, > > Put simply, I have a program which saves data in a subdirectory of > /var/lib/. The problem is double: > > 1. I can't modify the path where data are saved; 2. I'm lacking free > space in /var/lib/the_concerned_subfolder/ because

Re: Saving files of one folder in another partition, but without changing the path?

2010-07-04 Thread Axel Freyn
Hi, On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 11:33:04PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Put simply, I have a program which saves data in a subdirectory of > /var/lib/. The problem is double: > > 1. I can't modify the path where data are saved; > 2. I'm lacking free space in /var/lib/the_concerned_subfolder/ because

Re: [SOLVED] switching to console and zapping

2010-07-04 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 06:31:59 -0400 (EDT), Tomasz Maluszycki wrote: > On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:15:58 -0400 (EDT), lee wrote: >> >> Well, I changed the keyboard setting in xorg.conf: >> >> >> Section "InputDevice" >>    Identifier     "Keyboard0" >>    Driver         "kbd" >>    Option         "XKBOpt

Saving files of one folder in another partition, but without changing the path?

2010-07-04 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, Put simply, I have a program which saves data in a subdirectory of /var/lib/. The problem is double: 1. I can't modify the path where data are saved; 2. I'm lacking free space in /var/lib/the_concerned_subfolder/ because it is on an isolated partition (say hda2). However, I have free space i

Re: OTF conversion without OpenOffice

2010-07-04 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 11:19:29AM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:48:49 -0400, brownh wrote: > > > I received a .docx file appended in an e-mail, and need to extract and > > convert it to a convenient format such as .html, .pdf, or plain .txt. > > (...) > > If it's a simple file

Re: TP-LINK TM-IP5600 With Hylafax

2010-07-04 Thread Eric KOM
> On 07/03/2010 12:22 PM, Eric KOM wrote: >> The external modem don't have the driver for linux. >> http://www.tp-link.com/in/products/productDetails.asp?class=&content=fea&pmodel=TM-EC5658V >> May be, I will try with PCI? >> > > External modems do not need drivers. That's why they are so useful u

Re: [SOLVED] switching to console and zapping

2010-07-04 Thread Tomasz Maluszycki
> On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:15:58 -0400 (EDT), lee wrote: > > Well, I changed the keyboard setting in xorg.conf: > > > Section "InputDevice" >    Identifier     "Keyboard0" >    Driver         "kbd" >    Option         "XKBOptions" "ctrl:nocaps" >    Option         "XkbModel" "pc102" >    Option    

Re: After installation, my P2 is still unable to launch Debian

2010-07-04 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 13:09:41 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón wrote: (...) >> Console gives you the ability to gather data from logs and it also says >> (or points that) the problem could be on the GUI environment or X >> server. >> > I know. But what do you think that I could try to -

Re: J-Pilot and Handspring Visor

2010-07-04 Thread Florian Kulzer
[ Please wrap your lines at 72 characters for readability. ] On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 19:34:04 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: [...] > The visor is a great, but ancient device and the docs talk about using > a "fairly new kernel, like 2.4.17". I am using 2.6.32 from backports > and I have done 'modp

Logitech MX 5500 Keyboard + mouse problem since recent squeeze upgrade

2010-07-04 Thread Mark Fletcher
I am running amd64 squeeze on an Intel Core i7 920-based machine with 8GB RAM. I built the machine about a year ago and have been running squeeze on it since. I use a Logitech ("Logicool") MX5500 wireless keyboard and mouse combo. For about the last month or so I hadn't updated packages -- not f

Re: vbox loop in aptitude

2010-07-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 02 iul 10, 17:04:48, Paul Scott wrote: > Debian sid: > > There are several vbox packages available for update. When I choose > any one of those to update in aptitude I get what seems to be an > unending loop while aptitude attempts to resolve the dependencies. Please post the output of 'a

Re: Misleading Debian's installer choice

2010-07-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 03 iul 10, 11:35:05, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > > Okay. So, good news. The fact is that the installer first lets you do > something, and then prevents you from doing this. Weird, but, at least, > the problems which could arise if such choices were accepted, won't arise. It actually makes

Re: CUPS: why can `Media Source' be `CD or DVD tray'?

2010-07-04 Thread John
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Hi, > > For a printer, why can `Media Source' be `CD or DVD tray'? If I > understand it well, `Media Source' specifies where the paper to print on > is. (Or how could the paper be in the CD or DVD tray?) > Some inkjet printers (such as some

Re: CUPS: why can `Media Source' be `CD or DVD tray'?

2010-07-04 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 09:52 +0200, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 22:21 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > For a printer, why can `Media Source' be `CD or DVD tray'? If I > > understand it well, `Media Source' specifies where the paper to print on > > is. (Or how could the paper

Re: CUPS: why can `Media Source' be `CD or DVD tray'?

2010-07-04 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 22:21 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > For a printer, why can `Media Source' be `CD or DVD tray'? If I > understand it well, `Media Source' specifies where the paper to print on > is. (Or how could the paper be in the CD or DVD tray?) Where are you seeing this? I checked a CU

CUPS: why can `Media Source' be `CD or DVD tray'?

2010-07-04 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, For a printer, why can `Media Source' be `CD or DVD tray'? If I understand it well, `Media Source' specifies where the paper to print on is. (Or how could the paper be in the CD or DVD tray?) -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an